Rebekah's Insights

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September

The breezes taste
Of apple peel.
The air is full
Of smells to feel--

Ripe fruit, old footballs,
Burning brush,
New books, erasers,
Chalk, and such.

The bee, his hive
Well-honeyed, hums,
And Mother cuts
Chrysanthemums.

Like plates washed clean
With suds, the days
Are polished with
A morning haze.

by John Updike, from A Child's Calendar

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I open, here, with the poem that I have read each day of this fine month of September, to which we bid adieu this evening. :) Now, on to our first installment of This Month in School!

This month Liam has worked diligently at the following skills:

* fine-motor, through tracing, cutting, and pasting

* fine motor, through printing his first name

* visual perception

* eye-hand coordination

* safety rules

* shapes through multi-sensory exploration

* phonological awareness (fancy term meaning, awareness of sounds
in spoken words), i.e., rhyming

* same/different

* patterns

* left to right progression in reading and writing

* top/bottom

* categorization by physical attribute and function

* sorting by attribute

* short a sound

* memorizing (and dramatizing) Nursery Rhymes, i.e., Little Bo Peep, Humpty Dumpty, and Little Jack Horner

Liam also learned a new Memory Verse, "A soft answer turns away wrath." (Proverbs 15:1) He has also been learning several of the Fruit of the Spirit, namely, Love, Joy, Peace, Patience.

Both children have really enjoyed reading some new books, such as:

Chicken Soup with Rice
Louella Mae, She's Run Away
Down By the Bay
Mouse's First Fall
Apples

This month, Aine has mastered the following:

* color recognition, i.e., red, yellow, blue, green, purple, orange, pink, black, white, and brown

* shape recognition, i.e., circle, crescent, oval, rectangle, star, heart

* participating in Story Time at the library

* counting independently from 1 to 11

* letter identification

* animal identification

We hope everyone is enjoying their week and we will try to keep you posted next month on what's new at school for our little ones!